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Nuala Kenny brings to the crucial task of healing and renewing the post-pandemic Church, 55yrs of passionate commitment to the Church as a Religious Sister and 35 years of clinical care for seriously ill, dying and abused children. As a professor of pediatrics, and a physician ethicist with interest in palliative care and end of life ethics and just health policy with a special interest in pandemic and public health, she has been a trusted advisor to national and international bodies in the Church and in society.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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Recent blog posts<\/h1>\n
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Nuala Kenny\u2019s commitment to Healing and to the Prophetic Possibilities for the Post-Pandemic Church<\/span><\/h1>\n<\/div>\n[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.10.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.10.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.10.7″ _module_preset=”default” text_font=”Lora||||||||” text_font_size=”16px” text_line_height=”1.9em” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n
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I am a child of Vatican II and love the understandings of the Church as the Body of Christ and the People of God. \u00a0<\/span>but not the organizational and institutional failure to witness God\u2019s love and justice. I have prayed to provide faith-filled and courageous help in healing the Church and speaking truth to power.<\/p>\nMy personal journey with healing the Church from the scourge of clergy sexual abuse of minors began in Newfoundland in 1989 when Archbishop Alphonsus Penney of St. John\u2019s, Newfoundland, Canada, convened a unique lay-led Commission to advise him on catastrophic abuse in that diocese. This now landmark study identified systemic issues in urgent need of further study, including abuse of power, education of clergy and laity, sexuality, support of priests, and the Church\u2019s avoidance of scandal.<\/p>\n
I began my 2012 Healing the Church; Diagnosing and Treating the Clergy Sexual Abuse Crisis<\/em> (Novais, 2012) with a quote from the Acts of the Apostles \u201c\u2026we cannot keep from speaking about what we have seen and heard.\u201d (4:20) and wrote<\/p>\n\u201cThere are days when I cringe at the thought of working on the issue of clergy sexual abuse\u2026I am tired by being embarrassed by, and angry with the Church\u2026Yet I feel an undeniable call to work in this area.\u201d (13)<\/p>\n
I also quoted and another from Catherine of Siena, a mystic, reformer and Doctor of the Church in the 14th<\/sup> century correctly noted \u201cif a sore is not cauterized or excised, but only ointment applied, not only will it not heal, but it will infect the whole body, often fatally.\u201d<\/p>\nI began my 2019 Still Unhealed: Treating Pathology in the Clergy Sexual Abuse Crisis<\/em> (Novalis, 20190 with the cry of the apostles \u201cLord save us! We are perishing! And Jesus said to them, \u201cWhy are you afraid, you of little faith.\u201d<\/em> (Matt 8:25-26)<\/p>\nI wrote \u201cThis work continues my thirty five year journey of healing the Church from the clergy sexual abuse crisis and incorporates challenges for faith and the Church arising from the pandemic. As a pediatrician, I am painfully aware of the devastating harms of the physical and sexual abuse of children and youth by family members and trusted others. The additional spiritual abuse when offenders are \u201cmen of God\u201d has caused lamentations like those of the prophet Jeremiah:<\/p>\n
\u201cSee, O Lord, how distressed I am; my stomach churns, my heart is wrung within me\u201d\u00a0<\/em>(Lamentations 1:20).<\/p>\n\u201cMy stomach has turned in disgust at the abuse of power and trust, and at the magnitude of the harm to victims, their families and communities and to the entire Body of Christ. As a physician trained to respond rapidly to illness and the risk of harm, the denial and delay in leadership response has both baffled and angered me.\u201d<\/p>\n
My newest book A Post-Pandemic Church: Prophetic Possibilities<\/em> (Novalis, 2021) was written in the storm and chaos of COVID-19. In the Introduction I note that,<\/p>\n\u201cIn the wonderful, sometimes messy, and always mysterious stories of stories of our personal and communal lives some years are better than others. For our wounded and weeping world, 2020 was not one of the good ones. Coming after some difficult and divisive times in the Church and in the world, COVID-19 made it feel like never-ending, even apocalyptic \u201cworst of times\u201d without any of the \u201cbest of times\u201d in sight. (11)<\/p>\n
In 2021 the Church and world are experiencing unprecedented wounding and vulnerability with no clear end in sight. This experience has changed us and will continue to do so. The fundamental challenge for disciples of Christ is to maintain hope in the power of the Holy Spirit and respond in ways that accept this Calvary time as a dying of pathology and rising to new life as individuals and as a Church.<\/p>\n
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Getting to Know Sr.\/Dr. Nuala Through Some Key Presentations\u00a0<\/h1>\n
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Divinerenovation.org video series:<\/strong><\/p>\n#1 – Healing the Church – Diagnosing the Pathology<\/a><\/p>\n#2 – Healing Power & Relationships\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n#3 – Silence Secrecy & Denial<\/a><\/p>\n#4 – Morally Blind\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n#5 – Prognosis & the Power of the Holy Spirit\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\nCatholic Womens League August, 2020 Convention \u201cWomen\u2019s Work in Healing the Church<\/a>\u201d Webinar <\/span><\/p>\nDe Paul University, Chicago May 11, 2021 \u201cHealing in a Wounded \u00a0<\/span>Church<\/a>\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n
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My personal journey with healing the Church from the scourge of clergy sexual abuse of minors began in Newfoundland in 1989 when Archbishop Alphonsus Penney of St. John\u2019s, Newfoundland, Canada, convened a unique lay-led Commission to advise him on catastrophic abuse in that diocese. This now landmark study identified systemic issues in urgent need of further study, including abuse of power, education of clergy and laity, sexuality, support of priests, and the Church\u2019s avoidance of scandal.<\/p>\n I began my 2012 Healing the Church; Diagnosing and Treating the Clergy Sexual Abuse Crisis<\/em> (Novais, 2012) with a quote from the Acts of the Apostles \u201c\u2026we cannot keep from speaking about what we have seen and heard.\u201d (4:20) and wrote<\/p>\n \u201cThere are days when I cringe at the thought of working on the issue of clergy sexual abuse\u2026I am tired by being embarrassed by, and angry with the Church\u2026Yet I feel an undeniable call to work in this area.\u201d (13)<\/p>\n I also quoted and another from Catherine of Siena, a mystic, reformer and Doctor of the Church in the 14th<\/sup> century correctly noted \u201cif a sore is not cauterized or excised, but only ointment applied, not only will it not heal, but it will infect the whole body, often fatally.\u201d<\/p>\n I began my 2019 Still Unhealed: Treating Pathology in the Clergy Sexual Abuse Crisis<\/em> (Novalis, 20190 with the cry of the apostles \u201cLord save us! We are perishing! And Jesus said to them, \u201cWhy are you afraid, you of little faith.\u201d<\/em> (Matt 8:25-26)<\/p>\n I wrote \u201cThis work continues my thirty five year journey of healing the Church from the clergy sexual abuse crisis and incorporates challenges for faith and the Church arising from the pandemic. As a pediatrician, I am painfully aware of the devastating harms of the physical and sexual abuse of children and youth by family members and trusted others. The additional spiritual abuse when offenders are \u201cmen of God\u201d has caused lamentations like those of the prophet Jeremiah:<\/p>\n \u201cSee, O Lord, how distressed I am; my stomach churns, my heart is wrung within me\u201d\u00a0<\/em>(Lamentations 1:20).<\/p>\n \u201cMy stomach has turned in disgust at the abuse of power and trust, and at the magnitude of the harm to victims, their families and communities and to the entire Body of Christ. As a physician trained to respond rapidly to illness and the risk of harm, the denial and delay in leadership response has both baffled and angered me.\u201d<\/p>\n My newest book A Post-Pandemic Church: Prophetic Possibilities<\/em> (Novalis, 2021) was written in the storm and chaos of COVID-19. In the Introduction I note that,<\/p>\n \u201cIn the wonderful, sometimes messy, and always mysterious stories of stories of our personal and communal lives some years are better than others. For our wounded and weeping world, 2020 was not one of the good ones. Coming after some difficult and divisive times in the Church and in the world, COVID-19 made it feel like never-ending, even apocalyptic \u201cworst of times\u201d without any of the \u201cbest of times\u201d in sight. (11)<\/p>\n In 2021 the Church and world are experiencing unprecedented wounding and vulnerability with no clear end in sight. This experience has changed us and will continue to do so. The fundamental challenge for disciples of Christ is to maintain hope in the power of the Holy Spirit and respond in ways that accept this Calvary time as a dying of pathology and rising to new life as individuals and as a Church.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.10.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.10.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.10.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.10.4″ _module_preset=”default” text_font=”Lora||||||||” text_font_size=”17px” text_line_height=”1.9em” text_font_tablet=”” text_font_phone=”” text_font_last_edited=”on|desktop” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_image src=”http:\/\/stillunhealed.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/nuala-lecturing-scaled.jpg” title_text=”nuala lecturing” _builder_version=”4.10.7″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.10.7″ _module_preset=”default” text_font=”Lora||||||||” text_font_size=”17px” text_line_height=”1.9em” text_font_tablet=”” text_font_phone=”” text_font_last_edited=”on|desktop” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n Divinerenovation.org video series:<\/strong><\/p>\n #1 – Healing the Church – Diagnosing the Pathology<\/a><\/p>\n #2 – Healing Power & Relationships\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n #3 – Silence Secrecy & Denial<\/a><\/p>\n #4 – Morally Blind\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n #5 – Prognosis & the Power of the Holy Spirit\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n Catholic Womens League August, 2020 Convention \u201cWomen\u2019s Work in Healing the Church<\/a>\u201d Webinar <\/span><\/p>\n De Paul University, Chicago May 11, 2021 \u201cHealing in a Wounded \u00a0<\/span>Church<\/a>\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nI am a child of Vatican II and love the understandings of the Church as the Body of Christ and the People of God. \u00a0<\/span>but not the organizational and institutional failure to witness God\u2019s love and justice. I have prayed to provide faith-filled and courageous help in healing the Church and speaking truth to power.<\/p>\nGetting to Know Sr.\/Dr. Nuala Through Some Key Presentations\u00a0<\/h1>\n